MSC Apex Generative Design’s capabilities allow the creation of Design allows the user to create different result structures depending on the defined parameters such as Sturt Density, Shape Quality and Complexity. Furthermore, the design can be changed by defining preserved Nondesign spaces. This possibility gives the designer the chance to find leightweight designs capable of bearing the applied boundary conditions by reducing for example fixation points. This way totally new designs together ewith part consolidation takes place and in the software to inspire nrew solutionstaking advantage of the capability to reduce unnecessary Nondesignspaces and fixation points. This gives the optimization more freedom and will create completely new designs. In some cases it even makes sense to consider part consolidation as another goal of the optimization.
The software automatically figures out how many nondesign spaces - mainly for fixation points - can be reduced and how many need to stay. Naturally nondesign , Nondesign spaces wihtout any loads or fixations applied are reduced first by the stress-based optimization algorithm because no . No stresses occur in the these and surrounding area . Therefore, and therefore no material is needed. Of course there is a chance that these areas are being retained if they are exactly in the stress flow of the rest of the strutcure.
For this reduction to be possible and take place, the reduction possiblity is selected in the studies ta keep nondesign spacesthe definition of constraints needs to be applied as follows:
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As you can see in the image, all Nondesign spaces which are fixations need to be collected in one constraint. You can also include several in more than one constraint - then one fixation will always be retained by the algorithm. The function Keep Nondesign spaces needs to deactivated for the nondesign spaces as well as the constraints to allow such a reduction. For nondesign spaces wihtout without any bopundary fixation boundary conditions this selection is enough. For the possiblity of reducing fixation points, the constraint needs to be applied on several nondesign spaces and the selection needs to take ülace in the keep nondesign spaces option. The selection possibllities are graphically explained in the image below: Per default the function Keep Nondesign Spaces is always activated.
To make sure all the Nondesign spaces and fixation points are included in the result, the function Keep Nondesign Spaces can be activated.
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